/chrome-smartbox

Easy to use search engine manager...

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

SmartBox

smartbox

smartbox v5.0-pre

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An unmatched searching tool for web browsers, search for anything you want, search on anywhere you want.

Available Search Engines & Keywords

Platform Keyword
YouTube ytb
Google ggl
Android Developers adox
Bing bng
DuckDuckGo dckgo
Yahoo yaho
Iconfinder iconf
Reddit rddt
GitHub gthb

Screenshots

Searching on YouTube about chrome-smartbox Listing all search engines by comma seperated list Listing all search engines one by one

Usage

JSON data

[
    {
        "name": "xmpl",
        "desc": "example",
        "url": "https://example.com/search/?q={%query%}",
    }
]

Searching

Simple to search on whatever you want.

@ <keyword> <search_query>

keyword: is the short version of the web site's name. search_query: search query, nothing special. Just I need to mention here it'll be encoded.

Change Default Search Engine

Simple to change default search engine.

@ !<keyword>

Adding a search engine

Adding search engine to smartbox is simple. Please just type:

@ +<keyword> <site_name> <url>

keyword: is the short-name of the web site site_name: is the name of the web site url: can be similar to this one: "https://example.com/search?q="

Removing a search engine

Removing a search engine from database as simple as adding one. Please just type:

@ -<keyword>

keyword: is the short-name of the web site.

Listing all available search engines

There're 2 options you can try to list all of them. The first one is:

@ .

You can list just specific amount of them by typing "?".

The other one is my favorite. You can quickly review what's available in comma seperated form. Try:

@ ...

Which one is better?

Importing, Exporting and Adding sites

Importing, easily pasting prepared JSON array of search engines...

@ <= <json_array>

Exporting, easly while on omnibox. :D

@ >=

Adding array of search engines, it's now easier. :D

@ +<= <json_array>

ChangeLog

  • Ability to make default search engine...
  • Storing changes locally. (Finally)
  • Importing, Exporting and Adding sites (Experimental, but yes :D)
  • General improvements and fixes.
  • Search alogrithm improved and fixed some problems...
  • Fixed single add entry statement, now you can set the name anything you want (If it includes space wrap it via ("/'))